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Bret Biornstad

Learners not Knowers - 0 views

Learners not Knowers Its interesting that the quote I shared with my students the other day was, "The learners shall inherit the earth, while the knowers will be beautifully equipped to live in a ...

learning

started by Bret Biornstad on 04 Nov 11 no follow-up yet
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What Does Successful Project Based Learning Look Like - 0 views

The end of the school year presents us with an opportunity for reflection at Envision Schools. We take a final measure of students' progress throughout the school year, celebrate the many Envision ...

PBL projectbasedlearning

started by Bret Biornstad on 06 Aug 11 no follow-up yet
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Brainology - 0 views

Brainology SCHOOL MATTERS Brainology Transforming Students' Motivation to Learn Carol S. Dweck Winter 2008 This is an exciting time for our brains. More and more research is showing th...

motivation mindsets brain learning

started by Bret Biornstad on 21 Jul 11 no follow-up yet
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David B. Cohen, who - 0 views

David B. Cohen, who teaches at the upscale Palo Alto High School in CA, summed it up nicely: What I wish people would realize is that "good" schools with high test scores don't think of their inst...

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started by Bret Biornstad on 15 Jul 11 no follow-up yet
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How to Ignite Intellectual Curiosity in Students | Edutopia - 0 views

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shared by Bret Biornstad on 08 Aug 10 - Cached
  • e the flames of curiosity. Willingham gets to the crux of the matter right away: It is not the state testing that is doing the damage. It is the teacher's reflexive response to state testing.
  • Willingham also introduces in his book the concept that, "Memory is the residue of thought." This means that we remember most what we think about most. If the students are interested and inspired to think about things for prolonged periods, then memory is enhanced. This is where inquiry, constructivism, and curiosity come into play -- providing opportunities for students to think about what they are learning. In this way, memory is improved, students do better on standardized tests, and, guess what? Students enjoy learning! Problem solved.
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Splashtop App Opens a Whole New World for me on my iPad - DEN Blog Network - 0 views

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ipad eduapp app apps tech teched edutech

shared by Bret Biornstad on 31 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • Bret Biornstad on 31 Dec 11
     
    " ...Educator Carolyn Stanley shares how she's using Splashtop to stream Discovery Streaming to her ipad and the other uses that she's finding. This is something that teachers using ipads need to know about and test in their classrooms." Source: Vicki Davis
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Catpin Productions, Bubble Test Form Generator - Teaching Tools - 0 views

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Test Generator tools resources teaching

shared by Bret Biornstad on 10 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Bret Biornstad on 10 Aug 10
     
    Make sure you check out the Special Features 3/4 of the way down on the left.
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Braingle: Brain Teasers, Puzzles, Riddles, Trivia and Games - 0 views

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shared by Bret Biornstad on 17 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Bret Biornstad on 17 Sep 10
     
    Braingle is a host of more than 20,000 brain teasers, trivia quizzes, games, and mentalrobics (aerobics for the brain). The games section is comprised of popular games like chess, checkers, sudoku, and common word games. The Mentalrobics section of Braingle is what makes it worth mentioning. Mentalrobics includes memory tests, flashcards, and vocabulary building activities.
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HistoryBuff.com - 0 views

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shared by Bret Biornstad on 20 Jul 11 - Cached
  • Bret Biornstad on 20 Jul 11
     
    to integrate History Buff into the classroom: History Buff is a website that can help history come to life through story, virtual tours, audio and primary source news papers. I suspect that most students fall into the judge-a-site-by-it's-cover category like me. For this reason, if I was using it in my classroom, I wouldn't send students directly to the website to do a lot of digging on their own. Instead, I might direct them to the portion of the site I knew we would be using through a classroom website, wiki, blog or use a Weblist or Symbaloo to link to them. It is amazing how changing something as small as the entry point into a site can change a students attitude about the site (heck, I'm like that too!). Once I got into History Buff, I really appreciated the connection to primary sources and the way that the "actual" newspapers bring history to life. I REALLY liked the hoaxes in news section and suspect that students will get a kick out of it to. Your kids will be asking, how can people be SO gullible? These kinds of stories are wonderful discussion starters and will make students think critically about their own news media. As a fun extension, have your students write their own hoax news stories. Okay, now for demystifying the navigation of this site. See the itty bitty brown words in the left sidebar that are all squished together? That is the navigation. For real. I didn't notice it at first either! Go ahead and click on one to test it out…not so bad when you know what you are looking for, right? Right. For your convenience, I'm linking to each page of the site below so you can easily find what you are looking for. :) Online Newspaper Archives Historic Panoramas Reference Libraries (audio resources, hoaxes) Primary Source Material State Facts Interactive Quizzes Tips: History Buff has a newsletter you can subscribe to if you are, you know, a history buff. Just enter your email in that box under the header and clic
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*MUST SEE Pegby: Peg it up, Move it Around, Get it Done. - 0 views

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shared by Bret Biornstad on 20 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Bret Biornstad on 20 Jul 11
     
    How to integrate Pegby into the classroom: Pegby is one of those tools that I get totally geeked out about. I love the 3×5 note card look, the columns, the tagging, the associated calendar dates. A recipe for edu-love I tell ya! Pegby is a great tool for organizing your teacher self this year. Add ideas for the school year, tasks, lesson plans, to-do items, etc. to your board as cards. Create columns that make sense to you and organize to your heart's content! Want one better? Share your board with colleagues so that you are all on the same page and can share lessons/resources/task responsibilities. Older students can keep their school year organized by adding assignments, tasks, uploading work, taking/keeping notes and sharing their board with Pegby. As students work on and complete tasks, they can move items from one column to the next. Those unit tests won't be a problem because they can tag pertinent information and easily study and review tagged information. Pegby would also be a great tool for organizing research projects (even collaborative research projects). Students can decide how they want to organize their research and notes, tag information and attach documents. All of the research is in one place and tagged for easy reference when it comes time to compile the research. Does your school use standards to keep track of learning? Why not create columns of Standards headings, and associate each standard with a note card? Students can upload any files or work associated with the standard. OR instead of making each column a standard heading, columns can be associated with mastery level of the standard. As a student moves through levels of mastery, they can move that standard card from one column to the next making stacks out of the standard subject. Students can keep track of their own learning, share their "Standards" board with teachers and parents. Is your class collaborating with other classrooms? Create a collaboratio
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MasteryConnect - Home - 0 views

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shared by Bret Biornstad on 12 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Bret Biornstad on 12 Jul 11
     
    Another must see Mastery Connect is both an online standards tracking tool (parts of it are free) and a free iPhone/iPod/iPad app. Because the app is truly free, I'll start with it. The Mastery Connect app is a handy way to keep the Common Core standards accessible while you teach. The app sorts the common core standards by grade level, subject and strand. This is REALLY nice for quickly locating and referencing standards. Mastery Connect the website is the real gem. The site is brilliantly designed, easy to navigate, aesthetically pleasing and best of all, it works the way you think it should. With the Mastery Connect Master Tracker, teachers can assess core standards, monitor student performance and report student progress to parents and administrators. Master Tracker makes formative assessment that is standards based manageable to keep track of. Rearrange standards in the Master Tracker based on the order that you teach them in. View only the standards you are currently assessing, and view the entire standard as a pop-up. Within Mastery Connect, teachers can create and share common assessments. Similar in feel to other social networks, Mastery Connect lets you connect with other educators to share assessments, interact and offer each other support. It is easy to expand your PLN into the space, just find teachers with similar interests and goals and start sharing! And now for my VERY favorite part- bubble sheet scoring. Mastery Connect uses GradeCam technology to make assessment about as quick as it could be. Just hold up bubble sheets to your webcam or a document cam and it is instantly scored and entered into the Master Tracker associated with the student it belongs to and the standard it is addressing. Seriously cool. I am not a big fan of multiple choice testing (mostly because I think it is a lazy way to find out what a student knows and doesn't give a true picture of what a student knows or can do) but I think I have figured out ho
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Cumulative Test Prep: Grade 4 - 1 views

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test math grade levels

shared by Bret Biornstad on 20 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Bret Biornstad on 20 Jul 11
     
    Just substitute a different grade level after the underscore to get your grade level.
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Children Who Can Read, But Don't - Tips for Parents - 0 views

Children Who Can Read, But Don't.. Studies show what common sense tells us: the more kids read, the better they read and the more pleasure they get out of reading. Unfortunately, the reverse also...

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started by Bret Biornstad on 30 Jul 11 no follow-up yet
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Flubaroo Overview - Welcome to Flubaroo - 0 views

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tests assessments grading grades

shared by Bret Biornstad on 11 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Bret Biornstad on 11 Aug 11
     
    While multiple choice quizzes definitely don't fall into the category of authentic assessment they are still used by teachers for a variety of purposes. If you use multiple choice quizzes for any purpose, giving that quiz through Google Docs and grading it with Flubaroo could save you a lot of time that you can put to better use on other tasks.
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The Medium Is the Medium - 0 views

The Medium Is the Medium Recently, book publishers got some good news. Researchers gave 852 disadvantaged students 12 books (of their own choosing) to take home at the end of the school year. They...

reading technology

started by Bret Biornstad on 13 Jul 11 no follow-up yet
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Disrupting Class - 0 views

When students learn through student-centric online technology, assessment need not be postponed until the end of an instructional module and then administered in batch mode. Rather, we can verify ...

teaching assessment

started by Bret Biornstad on 13 Jul 11 no follow-up yet
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It's Easy… - 0 views

It's Easy… Which path will you take? Image from http://bit.ly/pASkSU As educators, we are often faced with an opportunity to take the easy road or the hard road. The easy road often works for u...

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started by Bret Biornstad on 13 Jul 11 no follow-up yet
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Why "I Don't Do Tech - 0 views

Why "I Don't Do Technology" Isn't Acceptable The FAA Credit Union building, which stands in for the Crime Lab in "CSI: Miami". Image by Tony Hoffarth. Imagine an episode of CSI where the main ch...

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